Have you ever wondered what the conversation would be about if two icons, decades apart, could actually meet and talk? Now is your chance to be a fly on the wall and listen in! Imagine how engrossing such an encounter would be! Now just extend your imagination a little further and have the coincidence of that conversation happening on the 44th Anniversary of Malcolm X's death and the induction of America's 44th President! Wow! We welcome you to share the moment.
About The Playwright
Jacqueline Clay Chester was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the only child to her young parents who had migrated from rural Georgia to New Jersey to find better ways to earn a living. The family eventually moved to Brooklyn, New York and made that city home. As a child Jacqueline and her mother often returned to Georgia to visit her mother's mother, Jacqueline's grandmother and grandfather but most especially Jacqueline's uncle's! She was always an avid listener as they spun tales about life in their small town in Georgia. Her uncles were born story tellers or spinners of yarns. Jacqueline gives them credit for the tradition of story telling she as a writer seems to have inherited.
Jacqueline always enjoyed all levels of her education. In Charles Evans Hughes High School, she was voted 'Ms. Charles Evans Hughes,' and graduated with a scholarship to the prestigious, Art Student's League, in Manhattan, New York. But Jacqueline made the decision to attend Fashion Institute of Technology from which she graduated but not before being chosen to model at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Russia. So during the summer of July, 1959 she and 47 other Americans embarked on a seven week trip to the Soviet Union. There she befriended many Russian citizens and enjoyed her stay so much she eventually wrote' Black Girl in Moscow, A Memoir.'
Jacqueline realized her passion was writing and went on to write several plays: 2003 :"Second Time" for which she won an Wilma Award for Best Female Character of the Year. 2009: "A Conversation Between Malcolm X and President Obama"...two great minds exchange thoughts and ideas when Malcolm returns from the after-life. Also is 2009 "Here, Again"...a father's powerful love for his daughter causes problems when she returns from the grave. 2011 "Ina's Loft"..a look at abuse in children, and the disturbing effects it causes. and "Emerald"..the love of a close family makes Emerald a star after the loss of her parents. In 2015 "The Journey of a King"
Jacqueline is also and artist and a jewelry designer. The High Museum in Atlanta , Georgia carried her line for three years.
